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Resolved. That one hundred copies of the above resolu-
tions be published in handbill form.
On motion, the meeting adjourned, sine die.
R. Mills, Chairman
S. C. Douglass, Secretary.
[2346) [BURNET ADDRESS] Inaugural address of the President, On taking the oath of office. [March 17, 1836] Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Convention, Any attempt to express my sensibilities on this impressive occasion, would be more difficult than useful. To be called by the unsolicited suffrages of this honorable and intelligent assembly of the people's delegates, to administer the executive authority of this new-born but gallant nation, is a distinction that might infuse both pride and diffidence into minds vastly more endowed than mine with the appropriate qualifications for a station of such high and solemn responsibilities. But, gentlemen and fellow-citizens, while I am sincerely disposed to acknowledge my too obvious inability to render full justice to the confidence manifested in this elevated appointment, I can assert, with equal truth, an inflexible determination to exert all the energies which divide Providence has conferred upon me, for the advancement of the single object, so dear and interesting to us all, the independence of Texas. To you, gentlemen of the Convention and to your posterity, belongs the glory of having pronounced the high, and I trust, irreversible decree, "that the people of Texas do now constitute a free, sovereign, and irzdependent republic: and to us and each one of us, and to each and every citizen of Texas, pertains the equally glorious, but more arduous duty of sustaining and bearing onwards lo practical perfection that grand and illustrious ordinance. Texas is, and has been for eighteen years, the land of my peculiar affections; and to aid her, in this day of her trial and, I tmst, of her glory, would confer upon me a nobler gratification than could be derived from the allainment of any other earthly object. But gentlemen, I am only one individual among a host; and my single efforts would be impotent and unavailing; Texas demarzds the utmost energies of every citizen. We are engaged in
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